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View Poll Results: What should we do about the same people winning contests over and over?

the beautiful thing about the CCC's is that they are voted on by the comunity. There's no favouratism of a few members focussed on Spicoli, he keeps winning because his photos are the best, as judged by US! So let him keep winning. Someone will catch him. He's not perfect, and any one of the rest of us is capable of beating him in any given month. Why hold the man back? And why take away how proud any one of us would be to beat him in any given contest. I wouldn't be as proud of a win if Spicoli wasn't allowed to submit a pic for that contest. Leave things the way they are.

I agree with everyone on this post! I think it would be best for everyone to keep it the way it is. I strive to get more votes than the last contest so I enter to compete with my self and if I win, which I haven't yet, that is great. We don't know who took the pic when we vote so how do we know we are voting for the same person? I think it should still be open to all but I like the idea of having a "winners" contest. Just more challenges for us all to partake in and hone our skills. That is the point of competition isn't it?

In no way should it be changed! I look to Carl as my finish line, he is my goal to win! If I was to win a contest and Carl was not involved, I would feel "cheated". If.....nay....WHEN I beat Carl, I will enjoy the accomplishment more than any prize. And I will video tape my "victory" dance and put it on youtube!

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I definately feel very challenged with CCC's - not always because the subject itself is challenging, but rather I know that the other submissions will be very high quality.

At this point, it may not be something "feasable", however, perhaps later on, there might be CCC's that are different "levels".....like:
Easy
Medium
Hard

How do you define who gets to enter which level? Well, I have two ideas on that - when a person signs up first one of the questions can be "At what level of photography would you place yourself?" (or similar)....or you must win "X" number of contests before you can get "promoted" to entering the next level....

just some thoughts. I am sure that this would be a fairly massive undertaking for Tim.

I understand the concept of not wanting to win a scrabble game against the 6 year old, however, think back to when you first started in photography......would you have submitted your shots to national geographic or Hallmark?
Personally, I like the challenge, but there may be some that feel they cannot possibly compete against the quality images that we get in each CCC. (again, I don't know, maybe it is just the opposite).

I think this suggestion is a very smart and well thought out one, possibly the best so far. But can it be done? Maybe if Tim recruited more help on the site, something like this would be easier to handle?? Anyhow, if it doesn't happen, I am content with the way things are now - I am, in all actuality, only in competition with myself.

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Originally Posted by dmm482

At this point, it may not be something "feasable", however, perhaps later on, there might be CCC's that are different "levels".....like:
Easy
Medium
Hard

How do you define who gets to enter which level? Well, I have two ideas on that - when a person signs up first one of the questions can be "At what level of photography would you place yourself?" (or similar)....or you must win "X" number of contests before you can get "promoted" to entering the next level....

just some thoughts. I am sure that this would be a fairly massive undertaking for Tim.

Yeah, that is something we can address down the road, but it would be WAY too big an undertaking for me. When we start seeing 50+ to 100+ entries for each contest, then it may be time to split them up, or do them more often. Honestly, we're still a ways off of that. Ideally, the revenue from the site will grow along with the membership, etc, so it may be doable down the road, but not currently. So, if you want something like this, let's get the membership up to 50,000.